Admiral James Sandecker

Personal Profile:

Book (Chapter):

Eye Color:

Blue. Pacific Vortex! (4)
Sahara (10)
Atlantis Found (13)
Valhalla Rising (10)
Serpent (15)
Blue Gold (27)
White Death (29)
Trojan Odyssey (3)
Hazel. Raise the Titanic! (6)
Shock Wave (11)
Atlantis Found (26)

Hair: Red.

Pacific Vortex! (4)

Has a neatly trimmed Ahab, the whaler's red bread.

Pacific Vortex! (4)
Has a neatly trimmed beard. Raise the Titanic! (6)
Sahara (10)
White Death (29)
Has a beard.

Night Probe! (22)
Deep Six (4)
Has a Vandyke beard. Cyclops (13)
Treasure (22)
Inca Gold (19)
Shock Wave (11)
Flood Tide (4)
Serpent (15)
Atlantis Found (13)
Valhalla Rising (10)
Blue Gold (27)
Fire Ice (10)
Trojan Odyssey (3)

Height: Short.

Pacific Vortex! (4)
5'6".

Iceberg (7)
A little over 5'. Night Probe! (22)
Blue Gold (27)
Atlantis Found (26)
Fire Ice (10)
Trojan Odyssey (3)

Maintains a trim figure.

Night Probe! (22)

A graduate of Annapolis.

  • Baritone in the Glee Club at Annapolis. Class of '39.
  • Writes a paper on the missing bones of Peking man at the Naval Academy.
  • Writes of the Holy Lance as a class project at Annapolis.
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    Dragon (11)

  • Iceberg (10)
  • Flood Tide (48)
  • Atlantis Found (29)
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    Serves under Admiral Bass in World War II.

    Vixen 03 (32)

    Meets Dirk Pitt in Vietnam.

    Deep Six (61)

    After his retirement, Admiral Sandecker is asked to organize a newly funded government agency dedicated to the research of the sea - the National Underwater and Marine Agency.

    Shock Wave (11)

    NUMA Chief Director.

    The Mediterranean Caper (12)

    Click NUMA to view information on his involvement with the agency and his office.

    Not popular in Washington social circles, he is respected by politicians for his integrity.

    Cyclops (13)

    Testy and irascible, he runs NUMA like a benevolent dictator.

    Atlantis Found (13)

    Occasionally referred to as Scrooge.

    		 Raise the Titanic! (23)
    Vixen 03 (8)
    Deep Six (4)

    A health and fitness nut, he jogs 5 to 6 miles every morning from
    his Watergate apartment/condo to the NUMA building.

    		 Night Probe! (22)
    Deep Six (26)
    Inca Gold (19)
    Atlantis Found (29)
    Trojan Odyssey (30)
    Takes daily vitamins and garlic pills.

    Night Probe! (22)
    Performs light workouts after lunch.

    Shock Wave (33)
    Once or twice a week, Rudi Gunn rides his bike during lunch along side the chief as he jogs.

    Shock Wave (37)
    Exercises in the NUMA employee health center.

    Flood Tide (4)

    The only jogger pounding along the sidewalk with an ever-present cigar stub protruding from his mouth.

    Night Probe! (22)

    His only vice, smokes ten cigars a day.

    Shock Wave (11)

    Cigar/brand descriptions:

  • Massive.
  • Zeppelin-shaped.
  • The brand is not specified but his cigars are made from a special blend.
  • Churchill style.
  • The brand is not specified.
  • Prefers Honduras over Havana.
  • The brand is not specified but his cigars are specially rolled.
  • The brand is not specified.
  • Hoyo De Monterrey Excaliburs.
  • Custom rolled Havana cigars.
  • The brand is not specified but his cigars are custom-rolled.
  • The tobacco is personally selected and rolled for him by the owner of a plantation in Jamaica.
  • The brand is not specified but his cigars are specially selected and wrapped to his personal taste.
  • Expensive Nicaraguan cigars rolled by a family in Managua.
  • Cigars are selected and wrapped to his specifications by a small family in the Dominican Republic.
  • Purchases his cigars from a source in Nicaragua.
  • The brand is not specified but the cigars are rolled to his special order.
  • Dominican Republic cigars.
  • Cigars are personally selected and rolled by the owner of a plantation in the Dominican Republic.
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  • Pacific Vortex! (4)
  • The Mediterranean Caper (Tally)
  • Iceberg (19)
  • Raise the Titanic! (6, 27)
  • Vixen 03 (38)
  • Night Probe! (72)
  • Deep Six (64)
  • Cyclops (13)
  • Treasure (36)
  • Dragon (21)
  • Sahara (21)
  • Inca Gold (19)

  • Shock Wave (11)

  • Flood Tide (5)
  • Atlantis Found (26)

  • Valhalla Rising (22)
  • Trojan Odyssey (3)
  • Black Wind (31)
  • Fire Ice (10)
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    Al Giordino enjoys playing a game with Admiral Sandecker and his cigars. Click Cigar Saga.

    		  

    A workaholic, he has to force himself not to work on Sundays by cruising along the shores of the Potomac River in an old Navy double-ender whaleboat he purchased surplus and restored.

    Shock Wave (33)

    Dines at the John Paul Jones Club.

    Treasure (22)

    Dines at the Army and Navy Club.

    Night Probe! (24)

    Drinks buttermilk.

    Night Probe! (24)

    Prefers Texas grapefruit to Florida grapefruit.

    Deep Six (22)

    Has a Watergate apartment/condo in Washington.

    		 Night Probe! (22)
    Deep Six (26)
    Inca Gold (19)
    Atlantis Found (29)
  • A penthouse apartment.

  • Trojan Odyssey (38)
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    Marital status:
  • Divorced.
  • An unmarried widower.

  • Shock Wave (33)
  • Trojan Odyssey (38)
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    Family: Elderly parents, a brother and a sister.

    		 Cyclops (41)

    Has a daughter living in Hong Kong with her husband and three children.

    		 Shock Wave (33)
    Trojan Odyssey (38)

    Maintains that swift recovery is a prerequisite for employment at
    NUMA - just ask Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino.

    Serpent (15)

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